The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National ParkLohman, Stanley William
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The Geologic Story of Canyonlands National Park
Lohman, Stanley William
Canyonlands National Park (Utah) -- Guidebooks; Geology -- Utah -- Canyonlands National Park -- Guidebooks
During the summer of 1968 a U.S. Geological Survey expedition led by
Eugene M. Shoemaker retraced the historic 1869 and 1871 river voyages of
Major Powell, in order to reoccupy the camera stations of the 1871
voyage and rephotograph the same scenes nearly 100 years later.
Remarkably enough, about 150 camera stations were recovered, many
requiring considerable search, and official photographer Hal G. Stephens
rephotographed the scenes taken with cumbersome wet-plate cameras nearly
100 years earlier by E. O. Beaman (above the site of Lees Ferry) and by
J. K. Hillers (below the site). A report containing these remarkable
sets of before and after photographs hopefully will be published
eventually as a delayed part of the Powell centennial. A few pairs have
been published by others (Baars and Molenaar, 1971, p. 90-99), and two
pairs are shown herein as figures 62 and 67. As these photographs show,
in most places the rocks and even the vegetation remain virtually
unchanged after nearly a century, but a few other pairs not included
herein show catastrophic changes resulting from local floods or
rockfalls.
[Illustration: CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK, showing location in Utah,
Lake Powell, Dead Horse Point State Park, boundaries, streams,
roads, trails, landforms, and principal named features. There was
insufficient room to show all named features; some not shown are
related in text by distance and direction to named ones, and some
additional names are given in figures 7, 51, and 59. Hans Flat
Ranger Station near left border is in Glen Canyon National
Recreation Area. The reader is referred to road maps issued by the
State or by oil companies for the location of U.S. Highway 163
(shown as 160 on old maps) and other nearby roads and for the
locations of the towns of Green River, Crescent Junction, Moab, La
Sal Junction, and Monticello. Visitors also can obtain pamphlets at
the entrance stations to the Needles and Island in the Sky districts
of the park or at the National Park Service office in Moab; these
contain up-to-date maps of the park and the latest available
information on roads, trails, campsites, and picnic sites. (Fig. 1)]
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